The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-11-17

In a loud voice, called out: I'm the
name of the people of the state of ILL.
nois, I command you TO peaceably dis
perse." Fielden, stepped down from
the wagon, gave the "ruhe" exclama-
ton: 1--WE are peaceable.n Instantly
the bomb was thrown, the first in free
America.
A SUFFERING spark in the air, on the
ground q binding buTst-that was all.
Blackness was everywhere. The
pygmy cracking of the pistol shots out
from the mob jammed sidewalks, a few
tall forms in the street rapidly closing
together, the flash and smoke of volley
after volley from them and the rear
platOons, then the din became hideous
with the grOaning Of mangled men,
and the yells Of rage and fear in the
wild scramble for escape.
THE SEQUEL
has stretched out to to-day. Foremost
it includes the death Of seven bomb
slain police, and the slow recovery of
sixty officers wounded The imme-
date arrest of all the chief malefact 0rs,
barring Parsons alone, was followed by
their prompt arraignment for murder
June q, before Judge Joseph E. Gray,
who proved himself as able as
he is worthy. The escape of
Schnaubelt, the actual thrower of the
bomb, who was set free before his i'm
portance had be6n suspected, was a
the opposite side when Parsons made
his sensational voluntary surrender.
THE FIRST DAY IN COURT.
Two months precisely was the length
of the trial, engrossing from day to day
the attention of the civilized world.
Whatever legal talent could do was eX-
hausted by the defense under the di-
rection of Captain Black, while State s
Attorney Grinnell directed the prose
cution, with a skill reaching every
point.
Death sentences for all but Neebe,
and the penitentiary for him; the tour
socialists, Liebknecht. the Ger
man parliamentarian, and Aveling,
the English scientist, in an
attempt to give prestige to the con-
demned and gain sympathy for them:
the effort to make sentimentalism have
an effect through the ostentatious love-
making of Spies and Miss Van Zandt
and their subsequent proxy marriage
all these followed each other in rapid
succession. Next came the intrOduc-
ton of the anarchists cause as an issue
in Chicago politics, resulting in the
DEFEAT OF THE RED FLAG
advocates. Abraham LincOln's ex-
partner, Leonard SWEET, presenting the
defendants case to the sup1eme court
of Illinois created q new sensation, but
his efforts were no more effective than
subsequent ones for the 7''reds'' by
General Butler, Roger Pryor
and J. Randolph Tucker be-
fore the highest court of the
nation. George Francis Train and his
queer exploits were in singular contrast
with the grave legal proceedings and
the bitter struggle in the trades unions.
The splits caused by friends of the
condemned in two of the greatest broth
erhoods in the World-Knights of La
Dor and TurneIs-have had far-reach-
ing effects, but the attention of people
at large has been much more strongly
arrested by the events of the past few
days. Beginning with Parsons extra
ordinary demand for liberty complete
or death, and Spies equally surprising
appeal for a little lease of life, every
thing seems to have combined, if pos
sible. to make this period exceed in
worldwide interest the days of the
Haymarket massacre.